WA L K + T A L K
REBUILDING WITH NATURE
Free Immersive Community Walk in Pacific Palisades
Join Poly/Ana & Studio Petrichor, in collaboration with Resilient Palisades, for a free immersive community Walk + Talk in Pacific Palisades—an on-the-ground experience designed to help fire-impacted residents read the land after fire, understand where water moves, restore soil, habitat, and resilience, and explore how working with Nature can create greater protection while reimagining their landscapes.
🌱 What You’ll Learn
Your guides, Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti, will walk with you through the neighborhood and a couple of local properties while sharing:
Read the land after fire
Understand where water moves
Restore soil, habitat, and resilience
Work with Nature to create greater protection
Reimagine your landscape
Learn. Observe. Ask questions.
Designed for fire-impacted residents
and anyone interested in ecological recovery.
This event is a living, breathing opportunity to learn, observe, and ask questions in real time—right where the lessons are happening.
Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti in Altadena — Becoming an Ecotoner Walk-and-Talk event
🕊 Why We’re Gathering
After a fire, many residents don’t know where to begin or how to help their neighbors.
Should you remove everything? Wait for rain? Replant? Rebuild? Restore?
Let’s begin together.
For two hours, we’ll walk roughly a mile, visiting a few local properties and exploring how water, soil, and design choices can shape safer, healthier, more resilient homes and neighborhoods.
Because rebuilding isn’t just about structures—it’s about restoring relationship with nature and each other.
🎟 RSVP
Space is limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.
Please only reserve a space if you are confident you will attend.
🥾 What to Bring
Comfortable walking shoes
Water
Snacks
Sun protection (hat, sunscreen, protective clothing)
A journal and pen
A willingness to listen, learn, and observe the land together
Total walking distance: approx. 1 mile.